Hi Ron Great quote.
When modernity was starting to take hold in the middle east, certain leader did see that Religion had no place in government, and some went to extreme to eradicate it. Kamal Pasha in Turkey, the Shah in Iran, Abdel-Nasser in Egypt, Even Hussein in Iraq. Unfortunately these were dictators, and we supported them and still support them. Currently Egypt and Pakistan are on that list. When the masses go looking for a rallying point, they don't have the Magna Carta to tread, they don't have the declaration of independence to draw from, they have their own clergy and their own books to draw from. Presto, a rallying call against the intruders. You also see the same thing happening here in the US. The intelligent design debate, the one nation under God pledge of allegiance and the 'In God We trust". http://history.vineyard.net/pledge.htm and here is the link to when it was added to the currency http://www.treas.gov/education/fact-sheets/currency/in-god-we-trust.shtml The US reached the height of its Golden Age between 1954 and 1958. The fundamentalism you see is but a last ditch effort to hold on to something of days gone by. khaled moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
